New subpackage xfig-Xaw3d

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 10:24:26 UTC 2007


On 17/11/2007, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 10:50:05AM +0100, Joachim Frieben wrote:
> > As of build #24591, the "xfig" package has been split up into "xfig-common", a plain "xfig" package built against the "Xaw" widget library and a new "xfig-Xaw3d" package which is built against the "Xaw3d" widget set.
> > Many other distros moved to using "Xaw3d" in the past, and it's good news to have this in "Fedora" now, too. However, it appears suboptimal to me that there now exist 2 packages which provide the same functionality only differing by the underlying widget library. I'd prefer dropping "xfig-Xaw3d" and "xfig" being built by default against "Xaw3d" which is already required by the new "xdvi" package of "tetex" successor "texlive" scheduled for inclusion into the next release. This would avoid clutter and unnecessary confusion.
>
> This kind of choice is best left to the package maintainer.
>

IMO It would be better if the xfig package was the one built against
Xaw3D, and there was an optional xfig-Xaw package though, for the
older widget kit.
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